000 lb) Unlike the US Space Shuttle, which was propelled by a combination of solid boosters and the orbiter's own liquid-propellant engines fuelled from a large Buran (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], lit. 'blizzard'; GRAU: 11F35 1K, construction number: 1.01, DoD: RAM-R) was the first flight orbiter to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. The Buran orbiters were similar in design to the U.S. Space Shuttle. Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was destroyed in 2002 when the roof of its storage hangar collapsed at Baiko Total orbital manoeuvring engine thrust: 17,600 kgf (173,000 N; 39,000 lbf) Orbital manoeuvring engine specific impulse: 362 seconds (3.55 km/s) Total manoeuvring impulse: unknown Total RCS thrust: 14,866 kgf (145,790 N; 32,770 lbf) Average RCS specific impulse: 275–295 seconds (2.70–2.89 km/s) Normal maximum propellant load: 14,500 kg (32,000 lb) Unlike the US Space Shuttle, which was propelled by a combination of solid boosters and the orbiter's own liquid-propellant engines fuelled from a large tank, the Energia launch vehicle used thrust from each booster's RD-170 liquid oxygen/kerosene engine (each with four nozzles), developed by NPO Energomash, and another four KBKhA-developed RD-0120 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engines attached to the core stage.

designed on paper a rocket fuelled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The world paid little … possibilities of a future reusable space shuttle. But the space shuttle was an idea whose time had … “beneath a communist Moon.” s Liquid oxygen - Liquid hydrogen (or kerosene) Oxygen and hydrogen